Country: Italy
Year: 2008
Duration: 125'
A four-chapter fresco explores a crucial decade in Italian history, “A synthesis of the students’ and workers’ protests, of the clashes of the
spanning the 1960s and ‘70s. The first two chapters recount the years
1968-1969: the student protests to reform an obsolete university system
and the protests of the workers’ movement in the fall of ‘69. The third
chapter is a voyage through the battles of the people to transform
housing into a right for all; while the fourth chapter illustrates the
growing awareness on the part of the military and the birth of the
feminists’ movement.
squatters and the feminists. The battles of the proletarians in uniform,
or rather, of the soldiers in the streets of Milan, and the images of
thousands of young people dancing naked in Lambro park. A vision
that is dedicated to anyone who still needs to understand exactly what
happened during those years, of which everything has been said up
to now but without managing to say anything. A way to not conceal
the massacres that were thought up and organized to stop a popular
uprising in search of dignity.”
Biography
film director
Silvano Agosti
Silvano Agosti (Brescia, 1938) enrolled in 1960 at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome; his graduation film in 1962 was entitled La veglia. In 1963 he went to Moscow to specialize in editing and to study the work of Ejzens tejn. In 1967 Agosti debuted with the full-length film Il giardino delle delizie, from which the censors cut 28 minutes. After numerous "militant" documentaries, Agosti founded 11 Marzo Cinematografica, a cooperative which has produced all his films. From 1976 to 1978 he taught editing at the Centro Sperimentale. His movie-theater Azzurro Scipioni, in the Prati district, became a point of reference for art films. In 1983 he finished D'amore si vive, a film which focuses on tenderness, sensuality and love, which was shot in Parma over a two year time span. In 1984 he published the novel L'uomo proiettile. This book was followed by Uova di garofano, Il giudice, La ragion pura, La vittima.
FILMOGRAFIA
Il giardino delle delizie (Gardens of Delights, 1967), Cinegiornali del movimento studentesco (1968), N. P. il segreto (1971), Altri seguiranno (1973), Scerscev (1973), Brescia 1974 ( 1974), Matti da slegare (Fit to Be Untied, coregia/codirectors Marco Bellocchio, Sandro Petraglia, Stefano
Rulli, 1975), Nel più alto dei cieli (In the Highest of Skies, 1977), La macchina cinema (1978), Album concerto (1979), Un incontro (1981), Il buffone di Dio (1981), Runaway America (1982), L’addio a Enrico Berlinguer (1984), D'amore si vive (1983), Quartiere (1987), Uova di Garofano (Sweet War, Farewell, 1992), Frammenti di vita clandestina (doc., 1993), L'uomo proiettile (1995), Trent'anni di oblio (1998), C'ero anch'io - Frammenti di lotte di strada (1998), La seconda ombra (2000), La ragion pura (The Sleeping Wife, 2001), Dario Fo - Un ritratto (2002), La conquista della vita (doc., 2008).
Cast
& Credits
regia, sceneggiatura, fotografia, montaggio, produttore/director, screenplay, cinematography, film editing, producer Silvano Agosti
musica/music Nicola Piovani
musica/music Nicola Piovani